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TGIF: “Forbidden Planet”

Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen (brother of former Deputy Prime Minister Erik Nielsen) died this week. He was most famous later in his career for his deadpan comic style, beginning in 1980 with Airplane. But he started out as an aspiring leading man in 1956’s Forbidden Planet.

Frye on at least a couple of occasions refers to the movie as a science fiction adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.